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Will Totalitarian Movement Rise Again in the Future?
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Abstract
This paper aims to discuss the elements, technology, and entertainment that totalitarians may utilize in the future. Technology is an essential method of controlling the populace. Nowadays, more advanced technology like street cameras, smart home devices, and even smartphones can be convenient ways to monitor one's private life, which can help dictators reach total control and manipulate the populace. Despite this Orwellian vision of totalitarianism, other ideas of totalitarianism offered by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World may also be realized in the future because of the emergence of television entertainment.
Keywords
technology, entertainment, totalitarianism
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Lin,X. (2023). Will Totalitarian Movement Rise Again in the Future?. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,8,42-46.
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